1. If, therefore, ye have been raised together with the Christ, the things on high, be seeking, where, the Christ, is -- on the right hand of God, sitting;
2. The things on high, hold in esteem, not the things upon the earth:
3. For ye have died, and, your life, is hid, together with the Christ, in God, --
4. As soon as, the Christ, shall be made manifest -- our life, then, ye also, together with him, shall be made manifest in glory;
5. Make dead, therefore, your members that are on the earth -- as regardeth fornication, impurity, passion, base coveting, and greed, the which, is idolatry, --
6. On account of which things cometh the anger of God, --
7. Wherein, ye also, walked, at one time, when ye were living in these things;
8. But, now, do, ye also, put them all away, -- anger, wrath, baseness, defamation, shameful talk out of your mouth:
9. Be not guilty of falsehood one to another: having stript off the old man, together with his practices,
10. And having put on the new -- who is being moulded afresh unto personal knowledge, after the image of him that hath created him, --
11. Wherein there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, bond, free, -- but, all things and in all, Christ:
12. Put on, therefore, as men chosen of God, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, graciousness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,
13. Bearing one with another, and in favour forgiving one another -- if any, against any, have a complaint, -- according as, the Lord, in favour forgave you, so also ye;
14. And, over all these things, love, which is a uniting-bond of completeness;
15. And let, the peace of Christ, act as umpire in your hearts, unto which ye have been called in [one] body, and be thankful:
16. Let, the word of the Christ, dwell within you richly, -- in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with gratitude, raising song with your hearts unto God:
17. And whatsoever ye may be doing, in word, or in work, all things, [do] in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks unto the Divine Father through him: --
18. Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord;
19. Ye husbands! be loving your wives, and be not embittered against them;
20. Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for, this, is, well pleasing, in the Lord;
21. Ye fathers! be not irritating your children, lest they be disheartened;
22. Ye servants! be obedient, in all things, unto them who, according to the flesh, are your masters, -- not with eye-service, as man-pleasers, but with singleness of heart, revering the Lord, --
23. Whatsoever ye may be doing, from the soul, be working at it, as unto the Lord, and not unto men,-
24. Knowing that, from the Lord, ye shall duly receive the recompense of the inheritance, -- unto the Lord Christ, are ye in service;
25. For, he that acteth unrighteously, shall get back what he had unrighteously done, and there is no respect of persons;